Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing

you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world.

We have a very special episode for you this week, in which I talk to Palestinian activist

Akram Salhab on his experience living and organizing in Palestine, exactly what is happening

in Sheikh Jarrah and the heroic efforts of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation, as well as

what socialists around the world can do to support them. This week the full episode is available

for free and we would really like to encourage our listeners to donate to charity supporting Palestinians

on the ground. You can donate to medical aid for Palestinians at map.org.uk. As Akram mentions on

the show today, so many Palestinians are dying, it is so important for those who can to donate

what they can to ensure that those resisting occupation and those simply trying to live while

Palestinian are able to continue their struggle. Thank you for your solidarity. Now here is Akram

Salhab from Jerusalem. Hello, Akram Salhab and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of

a world to it. How are you today? I'm very well thanks, how are you? Good, it's not bad, thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us all the way from Jerusalem. We are really looking forward to

kind of getting your takers to what's going on on the ground right now. But can you just start by

telling us what has been going on in Jerusalem to make it this enormous focal point for international

mobilization? Yeah, of course. I think events have developed really quickly, so what's happened

is basically three different issues of all related to Israel's attempts to forcefully

expel Palestinians from Jerusalem and to reduce them to a small minority in their homeland have

kind of come together to really spark the current crisis. So things began a few weeks ago at

Damascus Gate. What happens during the Holy Month of Ramadan in Jerusalem is that it becomes

very clear that this is a Palestinian city. There are Ramadan lights up everywhere. There are

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